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ZDNet takes a look at what it calls the “Maserati of smartphones,” the P800 from Sony Ericsson. The P800, which is hitting the States right now, is just about the most eagerly awaited cellphone in recent memory. A few months ago some people were paying upwards of a thousand bucks to get one that’s been…
It’s been pretty clear for a while now that blue lasers are the future of optical storage. They use a much shorter wavelength of light than the red lasers that are used in CD and DVD players right now, meaning that more bits can be squeezed into the same physical space. The first high-definition DVD…
We’ve mentioned cd3o Network MP3 Player before, the digital media hub which lacks a display screen and instead uses a synthesized robotic voice called CD-DJ that reads out to you the names of the songs that are being streamed from your PC to your stereo. At the time we thought this feature sounded pretty cool,…
It’s kind of like the Clapper, except for the extremely geeky: a remote controlled electrical outlet system from La Crosse. The Remote Control Outlet System lets you control any simple on/off devices like lights and radios remotely. The System comes with 2 remote controllable outlets and a remote control. The remote is extremely easy to…
WiFi might be getting a bump up in its maximum speed. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which decides these sorts of things, is considering a new standard called 802.11n that could have have a top speed of 320Mbps, almost thirty times faster than the 11Mbps that 802.11b can reach. Read
256MB CompactFlash memory cards from Viking are on sale over at Amazon for $37.49 after rebate. Amazon – Viking 256MB CF memory card
Pocket PC magazine review of the Pocket LOOX from Fujitsu Siemens, a Pocket PC that’s been out for a while in Europe, and is set to reach the US soon. Even though it’s a few months old, it still has some pretty decent specs: 64MB of RAM, CF and SF memory card slots, built-in Bluetooth,…
T3 guide to getting a home cinema experience out of your PC. It’s not as easy as it might sound though, you’re still going to need plasma television or a digital projector, but fortunately it’s getting cheaper all the time to get Dolby Digital surround sound out of PC. Read
Brighthand reports that virtual keyboards, where you actually tap onto an image of keyboard that’s projected by laser onto any flat surface, should be coming out later this year. The idea is that these laser projectors will come built-into PDAs and cellphones, so you’ll be able tap out text messages and emails from nearly anywhere.…
Sleek-looking Tablet PC from Amtek that mounts onto a rotating docking station arm. Mounted horizontally it looks a lot like the flat-screen iMac. The Amtek Tablet PC hits the US next month and has a 1GHz processor, 256MB of RAM, and a 30GB hard drive. Read [Thanks, Christopher Coulter]
While everyone’s been wondering lately whether or not Apple is going to buy Universal Music, the real question that’s been lingering unanswered for months now is whether or not Apple plans to jump into the cellphone market. Nice as it would be to have an iPhone, Ross Rubin explains why it’s never going to happen.…
Winbook, a laptop manufacturer that CNET describes as “third-tier,” is coming out with a line of supercheap desktops under the name PowerSpec. Four hundred bucks will get you a PC with a 1.8GHz Athlon processor, 128MB of RAM, and a 20GB hard drive. Read
From Mitsubishi, the world’s largest high-definition television. The Mitsubishi Alpha Widescreen HDTV tops out at 82 inches and is set to retail for almost $21,000. Read
We’ve always had a soft spot for Minolta’s three megapixel Dimage F100 digital camera, and now its successor, the five megapixel F300, is out. Digital Camera Resource Page has the review, and they largely like what they see. Read Amazon – Dimage F300
Finally, some blogging about jogging. Or at least what the Philadelphia Inquirer deems the must-have gadgets for any serious runner, like Polar’s S120 heart-rate monitor (pictured at right) and Timex’s Bodylink Data Collector which collects data about your performance that you can upload into a computer for later analysis. Read Amazon – Polar S120
Is Hewlett-Packard jumping into the cellphone business? They’ve been asking for price quotes from Taiwanese smartphone manufacturers, which is a good indication that they’re planning something. Read [Via MSMobiles]
New waterproof case for Casio’s line of superslim digital cameras. Amazingly, the case doesn’t actually add much heft to the camera at all, it’s still just 23mm thick. Casio is also selling a special edition of the Exilim that’s limited to 10,000 units and combines the waterproof case with the two megapixel EX-S2. Read [Translated…
We’ve got to confess that when we think of bikers we don’t even imagine them as carrying cellphones – they seem somehow too dainty for a Hell’s Angel to carry – but Motorola’s gone ahead and created a special version of its v60i cellphone commemorating Harley-Davidson’s 100th anniversary. The phones come engraved with the Harley-Davidson…
One of the dirty little secrets of the Titanium PowerBooks is that the range of their internal WiFi cards isn’t so hot. Now QuickerTek has a couple of new external antennas that connect to the internal WiFi cards, supposedly improving reception by 50%. Read [Thanks, Richard]
The LA Times reports that Apple might buy Universal Music. Let’s hope that this falls through, the last thing Apple should be doing right now is following Sony down the path of being part an electronics company and part a entertainment company. All that does is create two conflicting agendas withing the same organization. The…